Last year NHS trusts paid out £457 million to private companies in interest alone - equivalent to 15,000 nurses' salaries.
This is an absolute disgrace.
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We shouldn’t let this be buried by other news today. Foodbank charity Trussell Trust says that the need for foodbanks has outstripped donations for the first time. It has distributed 46% more emergency food parcels in August and September than at the same time in 2021.
New Chancellor, @Jeremy_Hunt acted today to stabilise the markets but will he extend this stability to families on low incomes?
We're urging the government to uprate benefits by inflation to ensure people in the UK do not face historic levels of hardship. jrf.org.uk/press/chancellor-…
And now where are we. Watching a spooked-out, wide-eyed, hastily-installed chancellor make a statement as if he's announcing a war, except that it's a war against the damage the government has inflicted on the country.
All Western countries whose citizens are in Evin prison must immediately call out Islamic Republic and make them accountable.
Citizens from UK, Us, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium and other countries are held at Evin. The lives of many Iranian prisoners is in danger.
#MahsaAmini
Horrified to see the scenes from #Evin prison tonight where hundreds of political prisoners are being held unjustly. Now a fire is raging and gunshots are being heard. I am urging the @ICRC to utilize all possible avenues to protect the prisoners in Iran.
#IranRevolution
The responsibility for any loss of life in this fire at #Evin prison lies with Ali Khamenei and his evil regime. Some of Iran’s brightest minds and bravest hearts are unjustly held at Evin. We will hold Khamenei and his regime accountable for any harm to any and all of them.
Talk that Jeremy Hunt is to be the new Chancellor.
Your friendly reminder that Jeremy Hunt did more than any person alive to privatise our NHS.
Putting him in charge of economy will accelerate privatisation.
She was groomed by dark-money lobby groups working for Big Tobacco, Big Oil and foreign oligarchs. Now Liz Truss is in office and trashing this country on their behalf.
petition.parliament.uk/petit… we have till the 12th oct to reach 88k signatures or the government will win ,so please sign re tweet & stop them from treating terminally ill & disabled people like second class citizens & a way to claw back money
Thank you everyone that has re tweeted my tweet, please also sign my petition found on my page.Im dying but I'm going to make sure @trussliz@NorwichChloe understand that they can't treat terminally ill & disabled people this way.Please help me help them
I'm on Universal Credit. I work full-time at home as a writer, 30 hours a week. I'm a single mum to a 10 year old and a live-in carer to my elderly mother. Apparently I should also be "going out to work"? Who looks after my son (outside school hours) & mum then? #universalcredit
Rishi Sunak is on the Rich List with his household’s £730 million fortune.
A 3% tax on his wealth over £10m would recoup £22 million for the taxpayer. That would lift 22,000 families out of poverty.
Sunak opposes Wealth Taxes.
Rail workers, post office workers, nurses, teachers, bus drivers, fire fighters, dock workers. They all want what you want- job security, decent pay, to be able to pay their bills, to raise a family.
Back them all please. Their fight is your fight.
It's not a cost of living crisis so much as a rip-off crisis.
People are being ripped off by energy companies, ripped off by landlords, ripped off by a government that channels benefits to the rich while watching the poor slide into destitution.
Our statement on the #SueGrayReport:
"There we have it.
Whilst the country had one of the highest death rates in the world from Covid-19, they were celebrating over Cheese and Wine and drinking themselves sick over a Karaoke machine.
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